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Various Reports on Elementary Physical Education
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG-326-SHAPE
Dates:
Circa 1950-1990
Found in:
AAHPERD Archives
Various slides, videorecordings, film strips, and films
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG-257-SHAPE
Dates:
Circa 1960-2000
Found in:
AAHPERD Archives
Vaughn Blanchard, AAHPER President (1947-48): records
Collection — Box: Box 1
Identifier: RG-223-SHAPE
Dates:
Circa 1930 to 1940
Found in:
AAHPERD Archives
Springfield College Thomas F. Waddell Records
Collection — Box: 01
Identifier: MS-537
Abstract
Dr. Thomas (Flubacher) Waddell (SC Class 1959) was a doctor, a decathlon athlete who participated in the 1968 Olympics, and the founder of the Gay Games (1982). Dr. Waddell was drafted into the army in 1966 as a preventative-medicine officer and paratrooper. Rather than going to the Vietnam War he trained for the Olympics, becoming a US decathlete in the 1968 Olympics where he placed sixth. Dr. Waddell, after joining a gay bowling league, was inspired to organize a gay sporting event modeled...
Dates:
1955-2015
Weiser Hall Records
Record Group — Box: 01
Identifier: RG-143
Collection Scope and Contents
This collection documents Weiser Hall from its construction and original use as the college’s infirmary to its renovations and use by the Humanities departments. Included in the collection are copies of floor plans; newspaper articles both from outside newspapers and the Student on its construction and cornerstone laying in 1922; a speech, both print and VHS video, from the dedication ceremony held in 2006 to dedicate its latest renovations; a list of items in the cornerstone; and...
Dates:
ca. 1921-2006
Wellness and Recreation Complex Records
Record Group — Box: 01
Identifier: RG-152
Collection Scope and Contents
The collection documents the building and initial year of the complex of buildings known as the Wellness Center, the Field House, and the Athletic Training/Exercise Science Center Buildings that were opened in 2009. The majority of the collection consists of ground breaking programs and the dedication materials, including a DVD with the video of the ceremonies, for the 2009 ribbon cutting or dedication ceremonies. There are also many photographs taken right before or after the ribbon...
Dates:
2007-2009
Lyle Welser Dance Class Papers
Collection — Box: 01
Identifier: MS-521
Abstract
The Lyle Welser Dance Class Papers contain materials believed to have been created for a dance class that Ted Shawn created and taught as a professor at the International YMCA Training School (now Springfield College) during the 1932-1933 school year. Lyle Welser was a student at Springfield College during this period, graduating in 1933, and took this class. Ted Shawn, often regarded as one of the fathers of modern dance, developed his famous Men Dancers troop using Springfield College...
Dates:
1930-1960
White House Conferences on Youth, Education, Aging, and Health
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG-424-SHAPE
Dates:
Circa 1900-2000
Found in:
AAHPERD Archives
Richard Whiting: 1965 Springfield College Football Team Papers
Collection — Box: 01
Identifier: MS-518
Abstract
The 1965 Football Team collection contains materials and information collected by Dr. Richard A. Whiting (Dick), ’66, G’68 concerning the 1965 Springfield College Football team. The Springfield College 1965 Football team went undefeated and remains the only Springfield College Football team to have an undefeated, untied season since 1893 when the season ended with a 2-0 record. Dick Whiting was a senior offensive tackle on the 1965 team. Dick graduated from Springfield College in May, 1966...
Dates:
1960 - 2015; Majority of material found in 1965
George Williams Papers
Collection — Box: 01-03
Identifier: MS-509
Abstract
Sir George Williams (1821-1905) founded the Young Men’s Christian Association in London in 1844. The movement spread rapidly, and fifty years later—in order to celebrate the organization’s Golden Jubilee—the directors of the International YMCA Training School, now Springfield College, in Springfield, Massachusetts invited Williams to address their graduating class of 1894. Because he was unable to attend the event in person, Williams wrote out and recorded an address to send to the School....
Dates:
1876 - 1972